Sarah Walter
Sarah Walter
2nd degree connectionUser Experience Research Lead at Google
Mountain View, California
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Experience
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Company Name Google
Total Duration 5 yrs 10 mos
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Title User Experience Research Lead
Dates Employed Jun 2015 – Present
Employment Duration 3 yrs 4 mos
Location Mountain View, CA
I lead a team of UX researchers, helping to shape the future of the home.
2015 - 2017: Lead UXR across Google Home, Chromecast, Google Wifi, other projects. Managed a team of ~11 UX Researchers and strategists to ship excellent hardware and software.
2017+: Lead UXR for other projects. Managing a team of strong researchers, working closely with design, engineering, business, product, and marketing to deliver experiences ... See more ... See more -
Title User Experience Researcher
Dates Employed Dec 2012 – Present
Employment Duration 5 yrs 10 mos
Location Mountain View, CA
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UX Researcher & Consultant
Company Name Independent
Dates Employed Apr 2012 – Dec 2012
Employment Duration 9 mos
Location San Francisco Bay Area
Collaborate with a variety of teams on UX research and strategy for mobile applications, PC games, websites and Facebook apps for corporate, non-profit and start-up partners. Clients include DICE, EA and EA Maxis. ... See more
Education
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Stanford University
Degree Name PhD
Field Of Study Learning Sciences and Technology Design
Dates attended or expected graduation –
Dissertation title: Raiding virtual Middle Earth: Collaborative practices in a community of gamers
Committee: Roy Pea (advisor), Brigid Barron, Dan Schwartz, Shelley Goldman, Byron Reeves (University chair)
Coursework included: product design, interdisciplinary game design, child development & new technologies, child and adolescent development, cognitive development, visual design and elementary education, moral development, introduction to curriculum, research methodologies, statistics, human-computer interaction. -
University of California, Los Angeles
Degree Name BS
Field Of Study Cognitive Science, Specialization in Computing
Dates attended or expected graduation –
Coursework included: educational psychology, human-computer interaction, children's literature, behavioral neuroscience, color and design, cognitive engineering, beginning and intermediate C++, neural networks using C++, statistics.
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Sarah is a joy to work with. Everyone should have a person like her on their team - and 10 of her would be even better. She doesn't just do what you ask, she does it better. Thoughtful, dedicated and skilled; all I have to say is that she kicks butt.
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Sarah is a uniquely-skilled technologist. She has the ability to speak and understand the language of technology while simultaneously being able to accurately predict a user's response to the presentation of that technology.
